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August 10, 2010

G114: Red Sox 7, Blue Jays 5

Mike Lowell's solo home run broke a 5-5 tie with two outs in the eighth inning. Ryan Kalish followed with a pinch-hit, line drive single to center and he scored on Jed Lowrie's double over the head of Blue Jays CF Fred Lewis. The three hits came on three consecutive pitches from Shawn Camp.

Manny Delcarmen set down Toronto's 7-8-9 hitters in order in home half and Jonathan Papelbon got the save, although he did give up a one-out double to Travis Snider (who had tied the game back in the third with a three-run dong off Dice (5.2-6-4-3-7, 110)).

Felix Doubront struck out Snider on three pitches with the bases loaded in the sixth.

Doubles by David Ortiz, Adrian Beltre, and Lowrie, and a single by Jacoby Ellsbury gave Boston three runs in the second. Victor Martinez's single, Ortiz's second double, and Lowell's sac fly gave the Sox a 4-1 lead. J.D. Drew hit a solo dong to lead off the fifth.

Lowrie and Ortiz each hit two doubles; Lowrie also walked. Ellsbury singled twice.

Mariano Rivera allowed three hits in the 10th (the last one to old friend David Murphy) and the Yankees choked away a game to the Rangers 4-3. The Rays beat the Tigers 8-0. ... Boston is 5 GB in the East.

In addition to trying to catch the Yankees and/or Rays, the Red Sox now have both the Twins and the White Sox nipping at their heels. Minnesota and Chicago are tied for the lead in the AL Central and only 0.5 GB Boston in the wild card race.

1944 - Red Barrett (9-2-0-0-0) of the Boston Braves throws only 58 pitches in a complete game 2-0 shutout of the Reds, which is probably a record. What is odd is that there was no mention of the low pitch count in any of the surviving game stories. I don't know when it was first reported that Barrett threw 58 pitches. Anyway, the game is also the shortest night game in history (1:15).

1999 - Red Sox reliever Tim Wakefield ties a major league record by striking out four Kansas City batters in the ninth inning. He finishes with six strikeouts in 1.2 innings.

Oh, I wanted to mention regarding yesterday - did you guys check the EI package for NESN? I know YES was on all the sportsnet channels, but for the 1/2 inning I saw, it was on the HD-EI channel, and it was NESN.

They responded to my email from before and said the same thing they told A on the phone yesterday, they have no control over what they show but they've forwarded my concern to the appropriate dept. Yeah, OK.

I never understand why people are proud of not paying for things. But it is very Canadian. "I never pay for parking!" and they're proud of driving around for 30 minutes and parking 12 blocks away in the snow.

I want to watch baseball, want to watch the Red Sox. Thus, must pay for TV.

Yeah, the ESPN game was on TSN2 because regular TSN was showing football. I guess that will be protocol for sundays from here on out.

We get TSN2 because we subscribe to whatever package has TSN...i thought they went together.

Apparently there's a NEW sportsnet channel coming out too - no idea what the difference will be between it and the regionals in terms of game coverage. Maybe show the Jays on the new channel and more NESN games on the East one? :)

I was thinking of how there used to be what, 3 channels, now theres hundreds upon hundreds in each country, and they're all filled up with programming. Meaning there's a whooooole lot of SHIT out there. That people watch.